Joseph K. Blitzstein
Professor of the Practice in Statistics,
Senior Director of Education
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Research Interests:
- Inference for network data,
- Foundational issues in Statistics and Data Science,
- Statistics Education
- Education
- Ph.D. in Mathematics, Stanford University, June 2006.
- M.S. in Statistics, Stanford University, June 2003.
- B.S. in Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, June 1999.
Experience
- July 2011 -- now, Professor of the Practice in Statistics, Harvard University
- July 2006 -- June 2011, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Harvard University
- January 2000 -- March 2006, Teaching Assistant and Instructor, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
Sample Publications
- Blitzstein, J. and Diaconis, P. (2006). A Sequential Importance Sampling Algorithm for Generating Random Graphs with Prescribed Degrees, submitted.
Conditioning - The Soul of Statistics - presentation at "Harvard Thinks Big 4"